Not so sure, plymayer. Viewing the files with the accesses she has probably isn't going to trip much. ALTERING the files would be more likely to trigger something.
Unless Dolly has a plan to use the cassians as pawns in her game.
After all, a pawn can turn into a Queen if moved to the correct position !
I nominate Malati for the position of pawn-to-queen !
Besides, she seems to have a better reign on her temper than Kali does and that way Kali can also continue to work behind the scenes as she's used to.
Also, that way Acantha wouldn't have to sit on the throne, and could live life a bit more freely, and Kali would finally get to protect her precious city to her full capacity. With so many wild cards on the table, she could be the uncrowned crystal queen of Nova Roma - Ah Aeneas, you gave us so many clues, that can be interpreted so wildly differently.
Anyhow, that is the kind of lateral thinking, I'm suspecting Dolly is capable of. :)
I'm not sure Dolly HAD enough information to formulate using the Cassians in her plans, Sheela. She may be getting that information NOW, but I don't remember her being informed of them in her brief mission briefing... Since CentComm was trying to keep her AWAY from Nova Roma, Dolly really didn't need the information. :-)
I pretty much HAD to do that. In this entire sequence, there have been panels that would have had the two of them obviously talking (moving their lips, facial expressions, etc), but Cent's rough draft had them speaking exclusively in "blip-talk", which struck me as raising a lot of questions from a reader perspective ("why isn't anybody noticing that they're apparently talking but making no sound, wouldn't that be suspicious?"). Thus, I opted to have them carrying on an audible conversation for the benefit of nearby humans to help maintain their cover, as well as having their REAL conversation in blip.
I am guessing that their hacker defenses are, shall we say, antiquated?
That or the information that is being pulled does not have that high of a classification on it. The file that was left for them could be in public view and simply hidden away in plain site via odd names or inside a folder inside a folder etc.
Since access to the information nodes(internet equiv) is limited in the first place It is entirely possible that they don't have information security anymore. After all, only the people that are to access it have access via their terminals in the first place.
Remember that there ARE androids in Nova Roma. Having a microphone or scanner system in place to pick up "blip-talk" would produce just as much tedious chatter as having one set up in New York City to detect, say, spoken Italian or Russian or Farsi. "Blip" isn't limited to one specific transmission frequency, and there's enough background "noise" that scanning for it would be an overwhelming headache. There are some places where androids are NOT permitted to go, and in those locations, there ARE devices to detect "blip" transmissions as best they can. Dolly and Ceci have bleeding-edge frequency-scramblers and encryption; Nova Roma lacks the tech required to even detect their private discussion.
There's also a bit of a blind spot in the general thinking of Nova Roma: "it is pointless to listen in on android conversations, because all androids in Nova Roma are fitted with inhibitors and cannot rebel."
Your writer is going to sprain her sprockets!
Problem is, accessing stuff at some levels triggers certain protocols and watch dogs.
After all, a pawn can turn into a Queen if moved to the correct position !
I nominate Malati for the position of pawn-to-queen !
Besides, she seems to have a better reign on her temper than Kali does and that way Kali can also continue to work behind the scenes as she's used to.
Also, that way Acantha wouldn't have to sit on the throne, and could live life a bit more freely, and Kali would finally get to protect her precious city to her full capacity. With so many wild cards on the table, she could be the uncrowned crystal queen of Nova Roma - Ah Aeneas, you gave us so many clues, that can be interpreted so wildly differently.
Anyhow, that is the kind of lateral thinking, I'm suspecting Dolly is capable of. :)
Besides - Malati as Queen ! XD
Shenanigans would occur.
When will then be now ?
kidding,,,,
great page again... nice work
*sage nod*
Oh, platinum security, contacts: Kali, Maxus, Julia, Alia (others)
I like this update :D ...do not worry, mommy :p
...too great :D
I am guessing that their hacker defenses are, shall we say, antiquated?
That or the information that is being pulled does not have that high of a classification on it. The file that was left for them could be in public view and simply hidden away in plain site via odd names or inside a folder inside a folder etc.
Since access to the information nodes(internet equiv) is limited in the first place It is entirely possible that they don't have information security anymore. After all, only the people that are to access it have access via their terminals in the first place.
And that would rise suspicion a lot.
There's also a bit of a blind spot in the general thinking of Nova Roma: "it is pointless to listen in on android conversations, because all androids in Nova Roma are fitted with inhibitors and cannot rebel."